One morning, as I walked my dog along the banks of the Kok River in Thailand's northern province of Chiang Rai, I noticed a group about my own age sleeping under a bridge.
This is uncommon in Chiang Rai, a developed city where homelessness is rare.
I asked them what they were doing and a young man in the group answered in broken English that they were Burmese Karens who came in via Mae Sai (the Thai-Burma border). I had known many Karens, but when I threw a few Burmese words at him he admitted that he couldn’t understand.
One morning, as I walked my dog along the banks of the Kok River in Thailand's northern province of Chiang Rai, I noticed a group about my own age sleeping under a bridge.
This is uncommon in Chiang Rai, a developed city where homelessness is rare.
I asked them what they were doing and a young man in the group answered in broken English that they were Burmese Karens who came in via Mae Sai (the Thai-Burma border). I had known many Karens, but when I threw a few Burmese words at him he admitted that he couldn’t understand.
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